Improvement in picture-frames



Inventor:

I-I. PATTBE'R'G'r1 Picture-Frame;

' Patented Nov. 12, 1878*.`

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

HILARIUS PATTBERG, OF JERSEY CITY HEIGHTS, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT. IN PICTU RE-FRAM ES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 209,832, dated November 12, 1878; application filed October 1, 1878.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HILARIUs PATTBERG, of Jersey City Heights, Hudson county, New Jersey, have invented an Improved Picture- Frame, of which the following is a specifica tion Figure 1 is a face View of my improved picture-frame; Fig.'2, avertical section thereof on the line c c, Fig. l 5 Fig. 3, a detail face View of one of the corner-pieces.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures. v

This invention relates to an improvement on picture-frames that are covered with velvet,- leather or other fabric, which extends to the edge of the frame.

It consists in providing said frame with projecting metallic corner-pieces, which have horizontal shoulders, inner lips, and outer projecting parts, all as hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawing, the' letter A represents the front part of the picture-frame, the saine being covered with velvet, leather, or other fabric, said fabric reaching to the outer edge of the frame. B is the back part of the frame, being the part which receives the picture.

G C are the corner-pieces, made of sheet 1n etal or other durable m aterial, each L-shaped, as shown in Fig. l, and each provided with a shoulder, a, that forms an angle equal to one of the corners of the frame A. The part b of the corner-piece, which is` within the angle or piece, C, for every corner of the frame, as isl clearly shown in Fig. 1.'

I claim as my invention- The corner-pieces C 0n1ade with shoulders a, inner lips, b, and outer parts, d, constructed for combination with the parts A B of a picture-frame, substantially as herein shown and described.

HILARIUS PAT'IBERG. Witnesses F. v. BRIEsEN, T. B. MosHER. 

